âA prophecy, a dragon-souled child, and a world determined to kill him before he can grow upâwelcome to The Last Dragon Knight.â Core Premise & Initial Impressions: I see you have come seeking knowledge of things unknown. I welcome you, wanderer. Comeâsit. Let us talk prophecy. I speak not of the vision concerning the dolphinsâ…
âKill the Princess is about laughing your way through the apocalypse, right up until it stops being funny.â Core Premise & Initial Impression: Some say the world ends in fire. Others say ice. From what Iâve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour fire. But if it had to perish twice, the apocalypse…
âSome stories hand you power. Swords Donât Kill Monsters makes you survive long enough to deserve it.â Core Premise & Initial Impressions: Swords Donât Kill Monsters. Rappers donât either. What does? Perhaps Ambientâthe ingeniously inventive, elegantly executed magic system at the heart of this novel. Iâve got to be real with you, Iâm not ready…
âThe Glass Wizard isnât pushing the boundaries of web fictionâitâs hurling itself through them like a wizard-shaped meteor.â Core Premise & Initial Impressions: How best to convey my first impressions of The Glass Wizard? I wrestled with that question while scribbling notes for this reviewâbut eventually, the answer revealed itself. To wit: imagine yourself at…
Core Premise & Initial Impression: Stay with me, dear reader, because this one might bring up some awkward memories. For the lads, you know exactly what I mean. Iâm sure itâs no less true for some of you ladies as well. Throw yourself back to when you were thirteen. A pimply youthâhormones aflame, eyes wandering…
âThis isnât a story where bigger fists winâitâs one where sharper knives are hidden behind prettier smiles.â Core Premise & Initial Impression: What do you get when you mix a mind-melding maligned monarch, a mesmerisingly malignant maiden, manipulative municipal machinations, and multifaceted mystically meticulous magics? A lot of Ms⌠fifteen of them, by my count….
âSpace may be infinite, but A Pioneerâs Blood makes it feel like four walls closing inâand thatâs the thrill.â Core Premise & Initial Impression: Space. The Final Frontier. Finalânot because thereâs nowhere left to go, but because space itself would rather like to kill you. At least thatâs true in the latest serial novel Bardic…